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The ebay seller from whom you bought has not given any manufacturer warranty. This itself is shady. You have to notify him within seven days and return the goods in its original packing. So do notify him instantly.
Without any further delay, test your pendrive with H2testW.

The ebay seller from whom you bought has not given any manufacturer warranty. This itself is shady. You have to notify him within seven days and return the goods in its original packing. So do notify him instantly.
Without any further delay, test your pendrive with H2testW.

The best places to buy flash memory are either a local store or Amazon. Much of what's on eBay is fake- sellers may not even know, they might buy a wholesale lot to resell and it'll be a batch of fakes. Packaging is no indication as fakes can copy the actual packaging. Some companies are trying anti-piracy measures such as decals that are very hard to reproduce without a special printer, etched serial numbers that bootleggers can't manage to do themselves, etc.

I'm not saying it's impossible to buy legit cards and sticks off eBay but you really have to be picky about sellers.

[Help]Pendrive/USB drive is write protected unable to formatHello, My Pendrive/USBdrive got write protected and I cannot able to format it. I do not want any files inside it. I just want to format it. I have tried many methods but still none of them are working. Please help me.
I have added some pics:
When I insert my USBdrive, It popups like this:...

Hardware & Devices

How Do You Create a "Protected Operating System File"?Hey all,
This is a weird question, but I've been trying to figure out how to CREATE a "protected operating system file/folder." For example, "desktop.ini" is one.
My story is that I accidentally deleted a junction (the C:\Documents and Settings junction which maps to C:\Users for backwards...

General Discussion

Flash drive WRITE PROTECTED,, not able to formatI am having some problems with my flash drive (SANDISK 8GB), i can't format and change any file of my flash drive, every method for flushing my data gave me the same respond, THE DISK IS WRITE PROTECTED,
i googled for the same but all was in vain,,, i tried formatting my drive with command...

General Discussion

Western Digital 1021 2TB Hard Drive - No file system and can't format?So I bought a used 2 TB Hard drive and it supposedly was only used a couple of times and I got a good deal.
I plugged it in and the software was installed successfully but it doesn't show up in the explorer with a drive letter. Now when I go to the device manager it does show up but I am not...